The Writing Process & Writer's Workshop (1) Pre-Writing: An author chooses a topic, begins to gather and organize ideas, considering the audience, identifies the purpose of their writing and chooses an appropriate genre. A teacher may select a mentor text to demonstrate an example of the genre of writing. *In the pre-writing stage, students can use a graphic organizer to organize their thoughts based on the expectations of the assignment.
Graphic Organizers: Ayudas gráficas, Graphic Organizers for Writing (2) Drafting: The author writes a rough draft using details and attempts to grab the reader's attention. The author emphasizes the content. (3) Revising: The author shares his/her work with a partner or in a small group. Students participate constructively in discussions about classmates drafts. Authors make substantive changes to reflect the comments of their peers and teacher. Revising Centers are a neat way for students to focus on a particular writing strategy. Centers such as, "Organizing, Rereading, Word Choice, Sentences, Titles, Highlighting" are just a few examples.
(4) Editing: At this stage, the author has finished revising and is ready to set the draft aside for a few days. When ready, the students can revisit their draft to locate grammatical, spelling, capitalization and punctuation errors. The teacher can provide a list of proofreading marks for students to use as they edit. *Students can use an self-editing and peer-editing checklist to reference as they work together and independently in this stage. The checklist featured below is from:http://www.readwritethink.org
(5) Publishing: Students are now entering the final stages of the writing process. In the publishing stage, they are publishing their work in an appropriate form (ex: using a word processor). They share it with an appropriate audience and may choose to include a page all about the "author". Students can create their own e-Portfolio and publish their work to a classroom webpage as well.
(6) Sharing & Celebrating: Students can share with a selected audience or may have the opportunity to share with their peers by participating in a read-aloud in the "Author's chair" in the classroom. Students can also share their work and discuss their final pieces through different learning management systems such as Edmodo, Schoology, etc.
(1) Pre-Writing: An author chooses a topic, begins to gather and organize ideas, considering the audience, identifies the purpose of their writing and chooses an appropriate genre. A teacher may select a mentor text to demonstrate an example of the genre of writing.
*In the pre-writing stage, students can use a graphic organizer to organize their thoughts based on the expectations of the assignment.
Graphic Organizers: Ayudas gráficas, Graphic Organizers for Writing
(2) Drafting: The author writes a rough draft using details and attempts to grab the reader's attention. The author emphasizes the content.
(3) Revising: The author shares his/her work with a partner or in a small group. Students participate constructively in discussions about classmates drafts. Authors make substantive changes to reflect the comments of their peers and teacher. Revising Centers are a neat way for students to focus on a particular writing strategy. Centers such as, "Organizing, Rereading, Word Choice, Sentences, Titles, Highlighting" are just a few examples.
(4) Editing: At this stage, the author has finished revising and is ready to set the draft aside for a few days. When ready, the students can revisit their draft to locate grammatical, spelling, capitalization and punctuation errors. The teacher can provide a list of proofreading marks for students to use as they edit.
*Students can use an self-editing and peer-editing checklist to reference as they work together and independently in this stage. The checklist featured below is from: http://www.readwritethink.org
(5) Publishing: Students are now entering the final stages of the writing process. In the publishing stage, they are publishing their work in an appropriate form (ex: using a word processor). They share it with an appropriate audience and may choose to include a page all about the "author". Students can create their own e-Portfolio and publish their work to a classroom webpage as well.
(6) Sharing & Celebrating: Students can share with a selected audience or may have the opportunity to share with their peers by participating in a read-aloud in the "Author's chair" in the classroom. Students can also share their work and discuss their final pieces through different learning management systems such as Edmodo, Schoology, etc.
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